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"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -Cicero

Shocking Number Unsure Obama U.S. Citizen

Six years after the first lawsuits were
filed alleging Barack Obama is not constitutionally eligible to be
president, a new poll indicates nearly one-quarter of American adults
don’t even believe he’s a U.S. citizen, let alone a “natural-born
citizen,” and another 17 percent are unsure.

Rasmussen Reports found 41 percent of
Republicans believe Obama is not an American citizen, a belief shared by
21 percent of those who are unaffiliated and 11 percent of Democrats.“Just over 20 percent of Republicans and unaffiliated adults also are
not sure, but only 7 percent of those in the president’s party share
that doubt,” the polling organization said in a report titled “Have We Got A Conspiracy for You – 9/11? JFK? Obama’s Citizenship?”Overall, 23 percent said the theory that Obama is not an American
citizen is true, and another 17 percent said they weren’t sure. Sixty
percent reject the theory as false.The Constitution requires the president to be a “natural-born
citizen” but does not define the term. Scholarly works cited by the
Founders defined it as a citizen at birth by virtue of being born in the
country to two citizens of the country, or merely the offspring of two
citizens of the country. The birth certificate Obama displayed on the
White House website, which declares he was born in Hawaii to an American
mother and a Kenyan father, has been found to be fraudulent by an
investigation authorized by Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio.The survey of 1,000 adults was conducted July 16-17 with a sampling
error is plus or minus three percentage points and a 95 percent level of
confidence.The survey ask for responses regarding “the world’s best-known
conspiracy theories” regarding JFK’s assassination, the Sept. 11 terror
attacks, Princess Diana, UFOs in Roswell, Paul McCartney and the AIDS
virus.While no state or federal judge allowed the presidential eligibility issue to be resolved in court, rejecting most cases out of hand, two members of the Alabama Supreme Court asserted it needs to be addressed.While the majority in a 7-2 decision on a dispute over Obama’s
eligibility issued “no opinion,” Justice Tom Parker and Chief Justice
Roy Moore concluded the allegations have serious constitutional significance warranting an investigation of the qualifications of 2012 presidential candidates by Alabama’s secretary of state.Moore wrote in his dissent that the circuit court should have granted
the plaintiffs’ request to order the state secretary of state “to
implement the natural-born-citizen requirement of the
presidential-qualifications clause in future elections.”“Although the removal of a president-elect or a president who has
taken the oath of office is within the breast of Congress, the
determination of the eligibility of the 2012 presidential candidates
before the casting of the electoral votes is a state function,” Moore
argued.He said the case was of “great constitutional significance in regard to the highest office in our land.”“Should he who was elected to the presidency be determined to be
ineligible, the remedy of impeachment is available through the United
States Congress, and the plaintiffs in this case, (Hugh) McInnish and
(Virgil) Goode, can pursue this remedy through their representatives in
Congress.”Parker agreed with Moore’s reasoning, except that he would call for
the secretary of state to investigate eligibility issues once she “has
received notice that a potential candidate may lack the necessary
qualifications to be placed on an Alabama election ballot.”Both justices had expressed concern about the issue.Parker had filed a special, unpublished concurrence in an earlier court ruling, arguing that plaintiff Hugh McInnish’s charge of “forgery” was legitimate cause for concern.“Mclnnish has attached certain documentation to his mandamus
petition, which, if presented to the appropriate forum as part of a
proper evidentiary presentation, would raise serious questions about the
authenticity of both the ‘short form’ and the ‘long form’ birth
certificates of President Barack Hussein Obama that have been made
public,” he wrote.Moore, in an interview with WND in 2010,
defended Lt. Col Terrence Lakin’s demand that Obama prove his
eligibility as commander in chief as a condition of obeying deployment
orders.Lakin was stripped of his rank and removed from the military when he
demanded to see evidence that Obama was a legitimate commander in chief
of the military before carrying out deployment orders. He reasoned the
orders would be illegal if Obama was not eligible to be president.At the time, Moore said Lakin “not only has a right to follow his personal convictions under the Constitution, he has a duty.”Read all the arguments in the birth certificate controversy, in “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and check out the special reports, banners and bumper stickers on the subject.“And if the authority running the efforts of the war is not a citizen
in violation of the Constitution, the order is unlawful,” he said.In the 2010 interview with WND,
Moore said he had seen no convincing evidence that Obama is a “natural
born citizen” and considerable evidence that suggests he is not.“This is the strangest thing indeed,” he said. “The president has
never produced [evidence] in the face of substantial evidence he was not
born in our country. People are accepting it blindly based on their
feelings, not on the law.”Moore explained that the Alabama case did not request a judicial
determination of Obama’s eligibility but an order that the elections
officials in the state assure voters that candidates were eligible under
the law.He explained state law calls for candidates “who qualify for
placement on the ballot in a presidential-preference primary … are
‘entitled to have their names printed on the appropriate ballot for the
general election, provided they are otherwise qualified for the office
they seek.’”“Under Alabama law, therefore, the Secretary of State, as the chief
elections official, has a legal duty to determine that
presidential-convention nominees who have run in the presidential
primary are duly ‘qualified for the office they seek’ before placing
their names on the general-election ballot,” he continued.The case raised some of the same arguments that appeared earlier in
dozens of local, state and federal court cases in Obama’s first term.They all argued in some fashion that because of the lack of
verifiable facts about Obama’s birthplace, he might be constitutionally
ineligible. Some say a person must be born in the U.S. to be a
“natural-born citizen,” others say it depends on a father’s citizenship.If the parents’ citizenship is a qualifier, Obama by his own
admission fails, since he reports his father was a Kenyan student who
came to study in the U.S. but never was a U.S. citizen. The senior Obama
already was married in Kenya before he met and married Obama Jr.’s
mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.This case is brought on behalf of 2012 Constitution Party
presidential nominee Virgil Goode and Alabama Republican Party leader
Hugh McInnish, who are asking Alabama’s highest court to force Secretary
of State Beth Chapman to verify that all candidates on the state’s 2012
ballot were eligible to serve.Get
Judge Roy Moore’s classic book about his battle for liberty, “So Help
Me God: The Ten Commandments, Judicial Tyranny, and the Battle for
Religious Freedom.”Attorney Larry Klayman in a brief, argued that the secretary of
state, “having the power to certify candidates, can surely decertify –
in effect disqualify – them if they are found to be ineligible.”He pointed out that, for example, California Secretary of State Debra
Bowen rejected Petra Lindsay on the 2012 California primary ballot
because she was 27 years old. The U.S. Constitution requires that the
president be at least 35.Certain documentationThe “certain documentation” to which Parker referred comes from a
Cold Case Posse investigation launched by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe
Arpaio.Arpaio’s investigation has concluded that based on the evidence, the
birth certificate documentation presented by the White House as “proof
positive” of Obama’s eligibility actually is fraudulent, created on a
computer and not representative of any official document.Arpaio’s investigator have raised the possibility of fraud and forgery committed against American voters.Citing the Arpaio investigation, Klayman says state officials “gained
knowledge from an official source that there was probable cause to
believe the Barack Obama had not met a certifying qualification.”“It would be paradoxical beyond measure if the real and grave
question of the legitimacy of the de facto president, a question which
lies at the very heart of our American constitutional government, were
left unresolved for want of the simplest of documents, a birth
certificate,” Klayman said in an earlier filing.Arpaio’s lead investigator, Mike Zullo,
said, “When this information is finally exposed to the public, it will
be universe-shattering. This is beyond the pale of anything you can
imagine.”Zullo explained that because it’s an active investigation that could
produce criminal charges, he’s unable to reveal details at the moment.But the allegations, he said, which go far beyond a fraudulent birth certificate.Zullo has testified that the White House computer image of Obama’s
birth certificate contains anomalies that are unexplainable unless the
document had been fabricated piecemeal by human intervention, rather
than being copied from a genuine paper document.See some of Zullo’s evidence:

More recently, Grace Vuoto of the World Tribune
reported that among the experts challenging the birth certificate is
certified document analyst Reed Hayes, who has served as an expert for
Perkins Coie, the law firm that has been defending Obama in eligibility
cases.“We have obtained an affidavit from a certified document analyzer,
Reed Hayes, that states the document is a 100 percent forgery, no doubt
about it,” Zullo told the World Tribune.“Mr. Obama’s operatives cannot discredit [Hayes],” the investigator
told the news outlet. “Mr. Hayes has been used as the firm’s reliable
expert. The very firm the president is using to defend him on the birth
certificate case has used Mr. Hayes in their cases.”The Tribune reported Hayes agreed to take a look at the documentation and called almost immediately.“There is something wrong with this,” Hayes said.Hayes produced a 40-page report in which he says “based on my
observations and findings, it is clear that the Certificate of Live
Birth I examined is not a scan of an original paper birth certificate,
but a digitally manufactured document created by utilizing material from
various sources.”“In over 20 years of examining documentation of various types, I have
never seen a document that is so seriously questionable in so many
respects. In my opinion, the birth certificate is entirely fabricated,”
he says in the report.Investigator Douglas J. Hagmann of the Northeast Intelligence Network reported
that in October an affidavit was filed in a court case, under seal,
that purportedly identifies the creator of the Obama birth certificate.He said Douglas Vogt, an author and the owner and operator of a
scanning business who also has an accounting background, invested over
two years in an investigation of the authenticity of document.Vogt, along with veteran typesetter Paul Ivey, conducted “exhaustive
research of the document provided to the White House Press Corps on
April 27, 2011 – not the online PDF, a critical distinction that must be
understood,” Hagmann said.“Using their combined experience of 80 years in this realm, they
conducted extensive examinations of the ‘copy’ that was used as the
basis for the PDF document. They acquired the same type of equipment
that was used back in the late 1950s and early 1960s in an attempt to
recreate the document presented as an ‘authenticated copy’ proving the
legitimacy of Barack Obama. Instead, they found 20 points of forgery on
that document and detail each point of forgery in the affidavit,” wrote
Hagmann.“Even more interesting, Mr. Vogt claims to have identified the
‘signature’ of the perpetrator, or the woman who created the forged
document, hidden within the document itself. Her identity, in addition
to the identity of other conspirators and their precise methods are
contained in a sealed document supplementing the public affidavit.”Grounds for impeachmentRecently, WND columnist Christopher Monckton wrote that the controversy he calls “Hawaiigate” should be “the central ground of impeachment.”“First, the dishonesty is shameless and in your face. Mr Obama’s
advisers, once they realized the ‘birth certificate’ was as bogus as a
$3 bill, knew that if they simply went on pretending that $3 bills are
legal tender the hard-left-dominated news media would carefully and
continuously look the other way, pausing occasionally to sneer at anyone
who pointed out that, in this constitutionally crucial respect, the
‘president’ has no clothes,” Monckton wrote.“Secondly, not one of the numerous agencies of state, as well as
federal government, whose duty was and is to investigate the
Mickey-Mouse ‘birth certificate’ has bothered even to respond to the thousands of requests for investigation put forward by U.S. citizens.”He said that in Hawaii last year, he watched “as a senior former
state senator called the police and, when they came, handed over to them
compelling evidence that the ‘birth certificate’ had been forged.”“The police, correctly, passed the file to the state’s attorney general, a ‘Democrat,’ who did nothing about it,” he said.“In Washington, D.C., I watched as a concerned citizen from Texas
telephoned the FBI and reported the ‘birth certificate’ as being a
forgery. They said they would send two agents to see him within the
hour. No one came.”‘You tell me about eligibility’One of the highest profile skeptics has been billionaire Donald Trump.

Trump said he can’t be certain that
Obama is eligible to be president, and he pointedly noted that a
reporter who was poking fun at the issue admitted he can’t, either.Trump repeatedly has insisted Obama has not documented his eligibility. At one point, he offered $5 million
to the charity or charities of Obama’s choice if he would release his
passport records and authorize the colleges he attended to release his
applications and other records.Trump argues that those documents would show whether or not Obama
ever accepted scholarship or other aid as a foreign student, which could
preclude him from being a “natural-born citizen.”Trump’s conversation with ABC’s Jonathan Karl started with Karl
noting that Trump took on the “not serious” issue of eligibility.“Why does that make me not serious?” Trump demanded. “I think that resonated with a lot of people.”Karl replied: “You don’t still question he was[n't] born in the United States, do you?”“I have no idea,” Trump said. “I don’t know. Was there a birth
certificate? You tell me. You know some people say that was not his
birth certificate. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows, and you don’t
know either. Jonathan you’re a smart guy, and you don’t know.”When Karl admitted he was “pretty sure,” Trump jumped on the statement.“You just said you’re pretty sure … you have to be 100 percent sure,”
he said. “Jonathan, you said you’re pretty convinced, so let’s just see
what happens over time.”Read all the arguments in the birth certificate controversy, in “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” and check out the special reports, banners and bumper stickers on the subject.Among the many records the Obama camp has refused to release are the
marriage license of his father (Barack Sr.) and mother (Stanley Ann
Dunham), name change records (Barry Soetero to Barack Hussein Obama),
adoption records, records of his and his mother’s repatriation as U.S.
citizens from Indonesia, baptism records, Noelani Elementary School
(Hawaii) records, Punahou School financial aid or school records,
Occidental College financial aid records, Harvard Law School records,
Columbia senior thesis, Columbia College records, record with Illinois
State Bar Association, files from his terms as an Illinois state
senator, his law client list, medical records and passport records.Join in support of the investigation.

In a brief asking that the Alabama case be dismissed, Democrats quoted late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel.The party insisted: “In order for one to accept the claim that
President Obama’s birth certificate is a forgery [and that he is
ineligible], one has to buy into a conspiracy theory so vast and
byzantine that it sincerely taxes the imagination of reasonable minds.”The brief scoffs at “birthers” as a “tiny cabal of zealots” and
quotes Kimmel saying: “These people could have personally witnessed
Obama being born out of an apple pie, in the middle of a Kansas wheat
field, while Toby Keith sang the National Anthem – and they’d still
think he was a Kenyan Muslim.”